Field Notices
This page aggregates the Arista hardware and software product field notices. For further information on Arista’s hardware and software support policies, please see product documentation.
Field Notice 0008
November 29, 2013. Category: Software
On the 7150 platform, under very rare circumstances, intermittent errors on the PCIe link result in a condition where the switch ASIC fails to send control packets to the CPU. Symptoms include spanning-tree loop or port-channel interfaces changing state due to LACP timeouts.
Field Notice 0007
December 30th 2012. Category: Software
Due to an incorrect bypass of the mlag-member filters the Arista 7150S Series running EOS 4.11.0 will forward ARP packets on all MLAG member links for a VLAN.
Field Notice 0006
April 2, 2013. Category: Software
The Arista 7050T Series requires a minimum version of EOS to support the latest hardware versions.
Field Notice 0004
September 7, 2012. Category: Hardware
Some Arista DCS-7148S and DCS-7148SX systems manufactured after January 2012 may fail, stop passing traffic, and no longer be responsive to console or remote connections.
Field Notice 0003
March 26, 2011. Category: Software
Switches running 4.5.1 or earlier that have SNMP enabled may be subject to a slow resource leak that will cause the system to consider the /tmp directory to be full.
Field Notice 0002
February 12, 2010. Category: Software
In some cases, Arista Networks Switches running EOS 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 and EOS 4.3.0, 4.3.1 will be reloaded by the hardware watchdog.
Field Notice 0001
June 26, 2008. Category: Software
Arista Networks Switches running EOS 2.0.3 or earlier do not distribute flows well on a LAG. Recommendation is to upgrade to EOS 2.0.4 or later.